rowet dial.
(ˈraʊɪt)
Also 7 roet, ruet, 9 rou(e)t, rowett, rowed.
[App. f. row a.1; cf. roughet.]
Aftermath, winter-grass; also, coarse grass growing on waste land or in ditches, etc.
| c 1700 Kennett in MS. Lansd. 1033 fol. 326 Roet or Ruet, pasture ground fed with cattle as distinguisht from hay⁓ground. a 1722 Lisle Husb. (1752) 251, I was afraid they would have been much pinched, their rowet being gone. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words, Rout, coarse grass, which looks brown and sare in the meadows in spring. 1850 Ogilvie, Aftermath..is also called latter math, rowen, or rowett. 1893 Mrs. Kennard Diogenes Sandals ix, Gale walked..mile after mile, over ‘rowett’ and ‘burnett’. |
| attrib. 1766 Compl. Farmer s.v. Dairy, The foddering season in the former holds so much longer, occasioned by the rowet-grass falling of a month sooner. 1893 Wiltshire Gloss., Rowet-grass, the long rough grass in hedges, etc., which cattle refuse; rowan or coarse aftergrass. |